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Educational capabilities are growing and changing with each

passing day as a result of technological innovation

Movable type
Johannes Gutenberg introduced the metal movable- The Horn book
type printing press in Europe, along with innovations in Wooden paddles with
casting the type based on a matrix and hand mold. It is printed lessons were
the world first printing technology for printing paper. popular in the colonial
era. On the paper there
was usually the
alphabet and a religious
verse which children
would copy to help them
The Magic Lanter learn how to write.
The precursor to a slide projector, the
‘magic lantern’ projected images printed
on glass plates and showed them in Chalk Board
darkened rooms to students. Also known as blackboard is
a reusable writing surface on
which text or drawings are
Pencil made with chalk. A board
It creates marks by physical painted with matte dark paint
abrasion, leaving a trail of (usually black, occasionally
solid core material that green)
adheres to a sheet of paper
or other surface. It is
eventually replaced the
school slate. Overhead Projector
Initially used by the U.S.
military for training purposes in
World War II, overhead
projectors quickly spread to
Mimeograph schools and other
It is a fault tolerant data organizations around the
duplication tool that will country. It is used to display
copy the content of a image in the classroom.
selected source to a
selected destination.

Skinner Teaching Machine

Whiteboard
The replacement of blackboards
with whiteboards started in the
early 60’s. Large board with a
smooth white surface that can be
written on with special markers
Its aim was to improve teaching
methods for spelling, math, and other
school subject by using a mechanical
device.

Plato Computer
IBM introduced its first
Interactive whiteboard personal computer weight 24
The chalkboard got a facelift with pounds. The Plato was one of
the whiteboard. That got turned into the most-used early computers
a more interactive system that uses to gain a foothold in the
a touch-sensitive white screen, a education market.
projector, and a computer.